Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Twitter Hashtag #honestGOPbumperstickers

John came across hashtag #honestGOPbumperstickers...



  • I broke the economy and all I got was this record-breaking corporate bonus

  • Who says we don't care about minorities? We love wealthiest 2% of Americans

  • Real Christians Worship Capitalism.

  • Your suffering is critical to our self-esteem.

  • Child labor: Legalize it!

  • We don't want to stand with you. We want to stand on you.

  • Jesus Gave Away Free Health Care. We Put A Stop To That

  •  I am pro life, because poor children should die after they're born, the way God intended

  • Can you please elect another southern, white good-ole-boy so we can quit parading around in these dumb costumes?

  • Of COURSE I'm pro-life...but don't touch my GUNS!

  • If they could, they'd go to a strip club and throw naked women at money... or is that one of the #honestGOPbumperstickers?

  • If you can read this, it's not our fault.

  • In God We Trust - but we blow things up if he doesn't do what we want.

  • If this car is rocking, it means I am masturbating into my gun

  • The only men who could have evolved from monkeys are black men.

  • White men were created in God's image

  • The Earth is 6,000 years old, because I saw man and dinosaurs living together in the documentary "The Flintstones"

  • If God had intended for you to have human rights, he would have put that in the 10 commandments

  • I drive a big car made in Germany to show my patriotism

  • Your Grandma Should Have To Pass a Drug Test to Get Her Meals-on-Wheels


Like dandelions in the spring, coming in every few minutes...



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